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Talk:Stasi still in charge of Stasi files

From WikiLeaks

thankyou

thank you for doing this. someone needs to expose the mad politicians and their tools of fear and oppression. Freedom is not free, and we must keep the checks and balences stronger than the opressors abilities themselves. Thanks for this effort. Keep exposing the truth. also could you detail the techniques of surveillance, technical and physical, that the state uses to oppress the people. Little is available on the subject of how this is actually carried out and so awareness is only possible if we have a frame of reference. Thanks again

Recommendations are repressive

I find some of the suggestions made by the analysts in Part VIII (recommendations) rather repressive (which is ironic, given the purpose of Wikileaks to expose and prevent repression). Effectively the authors are suggesting that people who happened to have worked at the Stasi in the past, should be denied the privilege to work in certain jobs. That these jobs have indirectly to do with the Stasi is irrelevant. That the Stasi's actions were questionable to say the least, is also irrelevant given that the Stasi no longer exists. Former Stasi employees have the same rights to a job and career opportunities as everyone else.

No they simply don't have the same rights in this regard. Just like you don't employ pyromaniacs in a fireworks factory. We must not repeat the same mistakes we made during the transition from the nazi-regime to the modern German Republic.

Not only that, but under the provisions of the 1991 StUG (the Stasi Documents Law passed by the Bundestag which brought the BStU into existence), one of the main tasks of the BStU is to help prevent former Stasi from holding public office or doing sensitive work like, I dunno, handling internal affairs for the very people who have the dirt on them. Many former Stasi, particularly those who were working more benign jobs have actually been hired in law enforcement after reunification. Many other former Stasi, however, did some really awful stuff and helped to run one of the most effective police states of the 20th Century. Whether they are a "good person" or no, having previously held that sort of position over one's fellow citizens ought to disqualify you from holding any kind of similar power again. --AC